Biography

Curtis Brown Australia

Hannah Kent won the 2011 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award for her manuscript, Burial Rites, and was mentored by Geraldine Brooks. She is the co-founder and deputy editor of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings, and teaches Creative Writing and English at Flinders University, where she is also completing her PhD.

In 2011 she was a judge of Melbourne University/The Australian Centre’s Peter Blazey Fellowship for Life Writing. Her creative and critical writing has appeared in The Big Issue, Australian Book Review, The Wheeler Centre, Kill Your Darlings and Voiceworks, amongst others.

Her debut novel, the international bestseller Burial Rites, was Peoples' Choice at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2014, and longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, previously The Orange Prize.